Yesterday, as expected, President Bush vetoed the Intelligence Authorization Act, which would have restricted the CIA to interrogation methods found in the Military Field Manual and outlawed without exception the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques. In his weekly radio address, the President defended his decision as a matter of national security, saying […]

Thanks to Esther who sent this my way the other night. Since I now live in California (it’s still hard for me to say that), I’ve actually been practicing Shabbas in a *somewhat* more intentional way. I often unplug, stepping away from my computer, which is a much needed thing in my overly-addicted computer way […]